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Friends,
I thought this worth a wider distribution.
Walt
Is A Soft Drink Like Battery Acid?
Before you drink another soft drink or diet soft drink, please read the
following article on wellness.
Scientists have found that healthy people have body fluids that are slightly
alkaline, 7.1 to 7.5 pH. Scientists and doctors have also found that over
150 degenerative diseases are linked to acidity, including cancer, diabetes,
arthritis, heart disease, gall stones, kidney stones, and many more. All
diseases thrive in an acidic, oxygen poor environment.
Keep in mind that a drop in every point on the pH scale is 10x more acidic
than the previous number--i.e. from 7 to 6 is 10x, from 7 to 5 is 100x etc.
From 7 to 2 is 100,000x more acidic, colas are in the approximate 2.5 pH
range. Almost no soft drink is higher than 3.0. Diet soft drinks are the
worst as they have the highest acid content. The best liquid to drink is
clean water ( tap water YUCK! ).
Almost everything we do including our life styles and the food we eat push
us into the acidic range: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are all digested
down to acids. Even metabolic functions and exercise create some acids
(lactic acid). Body fluids range between 4.5 and 7.5 pH. Your blood must
maintain an alkaline range of 7.35 to 7.45 pH. So even our natural functions
produce acids, and if we do not get the proper minerals in the proper forms,
our bodies will begin to degenerate. When you drink soda, the deterioration
will be much faster. For more information on pH see our article on Blood
Rouleau. Do you want wellness? Does this make sense to you?
Over the long term the effects of soft drinks are devastating to the body.
Acidity, sugars, and artificial flavors and sweeteners can shorten your
life. It would take 32 glasses of alkaline water at an alkaline pH of 9 to
neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. cola or soft drink. When you digest a
soft drink, the body will use up reserves of its own stored alkaline
buffers, mainly calcium from the bones to raise the body's alkalinity
levels, especially to maintain proper blood alkaline pH levels. There are
enough acids in one soft drink to kill you if you didn't possess a mechanism
to neutralize them. But your mineral buffers can be used up.
Lets stop and think about this for a minute. Ok I know that this is allot of
information and it may seem a little different than what you thought before.
What if a person changed their life style and removed soft drinks from their
eating habits for just 1 month and it helped would that be worth the effort?
Others have done just that and by removing soft drinks from their life and
creating a better life style they started getting their health back. Heck I
used to drink lots of soft drinks myself. Now I don't even like the taste of
them. Lets get back to the information on soft drinks and how to improve
your wellness.
The reason it is so bad, is that soft drinks, like water and other liquids,
pass very quickly through the stomach into the small intestine where it is
quickly assimilated into the bloodstream through the openings in the villi
in the walls of the intestines. They can also be absorbed right through the
stomach's lining directly into the blood. Liquids do not stay in the
digestive tract like solid food does. All liquids go into the bloodstream,
is filtered through the liver and the kidneys, and what is not needed is
sent to the bladder and urinated out. The liquids that you drink including
soft drinks come in contact with virtually every cell in your body.
When a substance is an acid, it means that there are a large number of
positively charged hydrogen ions in it. These positively charged ions are
lacking electrons and steal electrons from other atoms in the body which
themselves become electrically unstable and seek other electrons from other
atoms. Acids are free radicals and what you've just created is a chain
reaction of electron stealing. The problem with this is that whenever an
electron is torn from an atom a little spark is produced, and this is what
damages cell membranes. It's called free radical damage and can be seen
under a microscope in a live blood cell analysis.
If you have enough minerals the body can stop the process. But when you use
up the supply of available minerals to neutralize the acids, at that point
you may get a very serious degenerative disease. Every soft drink that you
consume will contribute to this acidity. Even without soda our bodies
naturally produce acids, and minerals are needed in our diets to stop the
deterioration process. Unfortunately, most of the food that we eat no longer
contains the minerals that we need. This may be the reason for all the
degenerative diseases that are so prevalent today. Work to have eating and
drinking habits for wellness.
Most degenerative diseases we call "Old-Age Diseases" like memory loss,
osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, and many more are actually
life style diseases caused by acidosis, the lack of supplements, what acids
we ingest, what nutrients we don't ingest, or toxins we don't properly
eliminate.
The way I see it, soft drinks are like drinking from a car battery. You
create a low pH condition in your body and cause health problems by putting
soft drinks in your body. Isn't it better to remove soda from your life
style to live a better life. Please don't put soft drinks in your body. Make
your eating and drinking habits for your wellness.
Be well,
Darryl Milligan
www.progressive-wellness.com
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 26, 2004 at 07:00:01:
Hi Walt,
You dont know what a good sight it is to see a post from "Walt Stoll". Hope you are feeling better. We've missed you. Take good care.
Love
Maz
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 26, 2004 at 07:00:01:
Yay for Walt..welcome back!!
I tried some experiments with this when I was at my worst
in health. Weekly I tested first AM urine and saliva. Over
the space of a couple of months my saliva went from 5 to
6.5 as my health improved.
Have not done this for months and this article prompted me
to go out and buy some more litmus.
Walt...what do you feel the optimum range is for AM urine
and saliva.
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 26, 2004 at 07:00:01:
Walt, I've been thinking a lot about maintaining our mineral balance lately, all that phosphorous in soda is a big problem. Perhpas you'll have time to comment on my post last night on the proper cal-mag ratio, based on a study of whole foods. Glad to see you're feeling better, take care.
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 26, 2004 at 07:00:01:
Yay for Walt..welcome back!!
I tried some experiments with this when I was at my worst
in health. Weekly I tested first AM urine and saliva. Over
the space of a couple of months my saliva went from 5 to
6.5 as my health improved.
Have not done this for months and this article prompted me
to go out and buy some more litmus.
Walt...what do you feel the optimum range is for AM urine
and saliva.
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 26, 2004 at 07:00:01:
good to see you back.
what about restricting all acids, vinegar, citrus, tomatoe,
and isn't coffee acidic and probably many more.
I think the kidneys would regulate a lot, unless damaged.
I had to buffer All acids when first injured and was
surprized how many things are acedic. I had to mix
bicarbonate into a Lot of things.
What about stomach acid ? Seems like that could contribute.
I know a few people who seem to have too low or high
stomach acid.
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 26, 2004 at 07:00:01:
This is too simplistic. There are forces that prevent losing electrons, and I don't think that any acid will be able to "steal" electrons from other molecules and start "a chain
reaction of electron stealing". Our bodies have lots of different acids: amino acids, fatty acids, stomach acid, DNA, etc. Acids shouldn't be considered evil, as this article seems to imply. And acids in a drink is the only factor that determines effect of the drink on the body. Those who believe in the pH theory claim that, for example, lemon juice, while being very acidic, is very alkalizing to the body.
I think there are other pieces of information that are more worth a wider distribution than this one. This one reminds me what Trepki finds.
In Reply to: Re: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance posted by R. [312.918] on March 28, 2004 at 09:07:05:
R,
Of course this is but one factor but it is a factor in nearly every case of chronic symptoms. I hope you really do not think that any one factor will ever be discovered that causes everything.
Walt
In Reply to: Body chemistry and degeneration: Archive in Biobalance (SIGH!) posted by Walt Stoll [9.8] on March 29, 2004 at 07:08:25:
What factor are you talking about, Walt? Acidity of body tissues? Aparently, I wasn't clear enough. My main idea was to argue against the author's position that just because a food has pH level less than 7, it is harmful to the body because it has acidifying effect. Again, those who believe in the pH theory claim that, for example, lemon juice, while being very acidic, is very alkalizing to the body. The author seems to ignore that.
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